英単語

punyの意味・使い方・発音

puny

英 ['pjuːnɪ] 美 ['pjuni]
  • adj.弱い;取るに足らない;小さい

語源


幼い, 弱々しい

古フランス語のpuisneから、一番若い、最後に生まれた、puis, after, afterから、ラテン語のpost, afterから。-古フランス語のpuisneから、一番小さい、最後に生まれた、puis, after, afterから、ラテン語のpost, afterから。

英語の語源


puny
puny: [16] Etymologically, puny means ‘born later’. It was borrowed from Old French puisne, a compound adjective formed from puis ‘afterwards’ and ne ‘born’ (a relative of English native, nature, etc). This signified ‘junior’, in which sense it was originally acquired by English as puisne. This spelling survives (albeit pronounced the same as puny) as a term denoting a judge of junior rank, and the anglicized orthography has since the 18th century been reserved to ‘feeble, small’.
=> nation, native, nature
puny (adj.)
1570s, "inferior in rank" (1540s as a noun, "junior pupil, freshman"), from Middle French puisné (Modern French pu?né), from Old French puisne "born later, younger, youngest" (12c., contrasted with aisné "first-born"), from puis nez, from puis "afterward" (from Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea "after this, hereafter," from post "after," see post-, + ea "there") + Old French "born," from Latin natus, past participle of nasci "be born" (Old Latin gnasci; see genus). Sense of "small, weak, insignificant" first recorded 1590s. Compare puisne. Related: Puniness.

例文


1. The lamb was a puny little thing.
ラムは痩せて弱っている。

2.Have grandiose aims but puny abilities,great ambition but little talent.
目が高くて手が弱く、志が大きくて才能が疎い.

3.We did not meet again for ten years,by then,the rather puny boy had grown into a six-foot man,weighing 200 pounds.
私たちは10年も会っていません。もともとは小さな男の子でしたが、今では6フィートの高さ200ポンドの大きな体に成長しました。

4.The resources at the central banks 'disposal are simply too puny .
中央銀行が把握している資金はあまりにも少ない。

5.Antonio was a puny lad,and not strong enough to work.
アントニオは痩せた小さな男で、体はまだ丈夫ではなく、仕事もできない。

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